Through Yom Kippur War, in 1973, the backbone of Israeli armored troops finished up being developed by the usa tanks M48A3 and M60A1. Nevertheless the significant losings experienced throughout the battles, established a marked improvement system to boost the working effectiveness plus the reliability of Israel's tanks. Through 1970s, more totally, the Magach 6 is established in line with the united states of america M60. The big range of many customizations, like installing of a brand new fire control system even though improvement applying this main armament, the absolute most noticeable modification completed up being the use of ERA (explosive reactive armor) defenses, suitable for lessen the ramifications of anti-tank tools and missiles adopted by the enemy armies. Between 1980 and 1990 the Magachs occur slowly changed by many modern and high level Merkava tanks as Israel's front-line MBT (main battle tanks). However the Magach 6, through constant upgraded, has ready several Israeli armored products before mid-1990s.
